- 5/9/13 /
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Davidson: MoMA May Not Tear Down the American Folk Art Museum After All
Potentially good news for the museum's defenders.
Architecture
- 4/11/13 /
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Davidson: It’s a Form of Betrayal for MoMA to Tear Down the Folk Art Museum Building
If the museum’s architects can’t figure out a way to use the building, that is a failure of imagination.
- 2/14/13 /
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Davidson: Mayor Bloomberg Reveals the Best Concert Venue of 2018
The Culture Shed will be an institution like no other: eclectic, adaptable, and untethered to an artistic program.
- 1/8/13 /
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Justin Davidson on Ada Louise Huxtable, 1921–2013
"At 90, she was still writing circles around the rest of us."
- 2/8/12 /
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New York's Koch-Fueled Binge: Saltz and Davidson on Distasteful Donations
Is David Koch's money good enough for the Met?
- 12/8/11 /
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Ice Cube Opines on Architecture, the Difference Between ‘Bougie and Gangsta Traffic’
"Each freeway has its own personality."
- 12/2/10 /
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Short People: Better Architects?
Why are so many major architects either just below average in height like Frank Gehry and Louis Khan, or straight-up tiny like Julia Morgan and Daniel Libeskind?
- 3/28/10 /
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Japanese Architect Duo Take Home the Pritzker Prize
And a $100,000 prize.
- 3/2/10 /
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Fan-Made Architectural Drawings of Classic Sitcom Houses
So nerdy, but so great.
- 2/16/10 /
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See Wayne Coyne’s Awesome Bathroom
"Customized seats in the bathing pods tub portion, sculpted around [Coyne] and wife while they sat."
- 8/6/09 /
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Davidson: Charles Gwathmey’s Iconic New York Buildings
Rather than brand his designs with signature mannerisms, he combined smooth elegance of execution with the willingness to be self-effacing.
- 3/13/09 /
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Float On: Architectural Treasure Heads Downstream
Its creator once proudly described the house as “a bold little ugly banal box.”
- 7/24/08 /
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New York Finally Gets a Zaha Hadid — Just Five Years After Cincinnati!
It took a while, but we've almost caught up with Ohio's third largest city!
- 3/31/08 /
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Inside Pritzker Prize Winner Jean Nouvel's Downtown Gem
'New York' Magazine's profile of Nouvel's gorgeous 40 Mercer reveals the work of architecture's newest prizewinner.
- 2/7/08 /
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P.S. 1 Young Architect Winners Would Like You to Eat Cabbage This Summer
And they'll grow it for you, in P.S. 1's courtyard.
- 10/31/07 /
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Santiago Calatrava vs. the City of Bilbao
A Spanish mayor rips a world-class starchitect a new one.
- 10/3/07 /
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Herbert Muschamp Dies at 59
The longtime NYT architecture critic is remembered by Justin Davidson.